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You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?

Robert Plant

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Robert Plant
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 20
Composer
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Robert Anthony Plant
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I'm tipping the hat and looking back.
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Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.
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Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can.
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Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.
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I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.
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What I lack in style and craft, I can make up for in joy and enthusiasm. I like to be around people who are at ease so I like to think the 25-year-old would find me quite an easy-going late-middle-aged hippie.
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I kind of disguise my limitations by hanging out with very talented people. The excitement of the collision between the microphone-twirling guy from 1966 to now is just a fantastic adventure. There aren't many of us left and I've managed to kind of cover my tracks pretty good.
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What I want to do, I do! I'm pretty fortunate.
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It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.
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It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.
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How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?
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I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
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I hate cliché. And when you're a rock singer in 1966, or whatever it was, psychedelic blues, through to the '70s, which we know all about, and the '80s, which was a scramble to hang on in, and the '90s, which was a great time for experimentation... and I'm really still excited. The huge vast diagonals within the music that I've been involved with.
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